Lots of new stuff for me today in the NYT xword:
- PETESEEGER has been called "America's Tuning Fork", whatever that means. I learned these facts before today: Pete Seeger is not related to Bob Seger (note the spelling difference), but is related to Mike Seeger, who died recently.
- SANTACLAUS does not read my letters! ("Letter greeting never read by it's intended recipient"). Just kidding, I've never written a letter to Santa. I once wrote a letter to my little brother pretending to be Santa, though ... I was trying to give him the gift of childhood wonder for Xmas.
- A PASEO is not just a mall, but also a "scenic walk".
- There aren't just I-beams and T-bars, but also LBARS ("angle irons").
- The "all-time strike-out leader" is not Nolan Ryan (aka The Ryan Express) but Reggie Jackson (aka MROCTOBER), who apparently has struck out 2,597 times.
[Image: Schiehallion in Perthshire, Scotland, guardian.co.uk]
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